History AnArmAndALeg / AnimeAndManga

** [[OffscreenMomentOfAwesome While we do not get to see the end of Yammy's battle with Kenpachi and Byakuya]], the last we do see of him is dying of his injuries within Las Noches. One such injury is half of his right arm missing. What we do see of their fight mostly involves Kenpachi chopping off several of his legs and fingers.

** [[OffscreenMomentOfAwesome While we do not get to see the end of Yammy's battle with Kenpachi and Byakuya]], the last we do see of him is dying of his injuries within Las Noches. One such injury is half of his right arm missing.

** After Ichigo transforms into a complete Hollow, he cuts off Ulquiorra's left arm and [[GrievousHarmWithABody hits him with it]]. Ulquiorra simply [[HealingFactor grows a new one]] in a second. Ichigo later throws the arm at Ulquiorra to distract him.

* ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'': Happens so often that it's almost a RunningGag.

** After Grimmjow takes his Fracciones on an unauthorized trip to the World of the Living in order to kill Ichigo and his friends, from which he ends up being the sole survivor, Aizen makes no move to punish him. [[TheDragon Tousen]], [[{{pun}} on the other hand]], can't stand Grimmjow's attitude and cuts off and incinerates his left arm, preventing it from being reattached like Yammy. The loss of Grimmjow's arm means a reduction of his strength, enough that he's demoted from the Espada and replaced by Luppi, who taunts him over this. He later has the arm restored after [[TheMedic Orihime]] is kidnapped by Ulquiorra, and celebrates regaining his former rank by punching a hole into Luppi and disintegrating his upper half with a Cero.

** Soi Fon has her arm removed to stop Baraggan's [[RapidAging Respira]] from taking over her whole body. It is eventually restored during the TimeSkip.
** Hachi removes his own arm, also infected with Respira, to [[HoistByHisOwnPetard kill Baraggan]]. It is also restored during the TimeSkip.

** Yamamoto sacrifices his arm in battle to blow up Aizen. After Aizen is eventually defeated, Yamamoto never seeks help in having the arm replaced or restored, both of which are possible. When he and Yhwach meet in battle for the first time in a thousand years, Yhwach tells him that he's become weak and is no longer the formidable opponent Yhwach remembers. To Yhwach, Yamamoto's missing arm represents the loss of Yamamoto's ruthless, thuggish nature which is what made him so dangerous in the past. [[spoiler:Yamamoto's refusal to ask Orhime to restore his lost arm is what Yhwach cites as the reason why he so easily defeats Yamamoto and steals his Bankai. The defeat of Yamamoto sets off a chain of events that changes the entire direction of the Gotei 13, and opens the Royal Realm to being conquered.]]
** Yoruichi tears her arm off to stop [[LovecraftianSuperpower Pernida]] from [[PeoplePuppets taking control of the rest of her body]].
** Kenpachi cuts off [[SizeShifter Gerard's]] right arm when he interrupts his fight with Byakuya and Hitsugaya, only for Gerard to casually [[HealingFactor regrow]] a new, stronger arm. Not long after, Kenpachi uses [[SuperMode Bankai]] and becomes a [[TheBerserker berserker]], after which he just as casually removes Gerard's right arm a second time. ''By [[NowThatsUsingYourTeeth biting it]] and ripping it off his shoulder''. Not finished, Kenpachi then jumps to attack Gerard, who tries to defend himself with his shield: it does little to protect him, as Kenpachi cuts it in half, along with Gerard's left hand.
** And dozens more characters all get their arms cut off at various points. Sometimes multiple times due to HealingFactor, including Ulquiorra, Komamura and more.

** After Grimmjow takes his Fracciones on an unauthorized trip to the World of the Living in order to kill Ichigo and his friends, from which he ends up being the sole survivor, Aizen makes no move to punish him. [[TheDragon Tousen]], [[{{pun}} on the other hand]], can't stand Grimmjow's attitude and cuts off and incinerates his left arm, preventing it from being reattached like Yammy. The loss of Grimmjow's arm means a reduction of his strength, enough that he's demoted from the Espada and replaced by Luppi, who taunts him over this. He later has the arm restored after [[TheeMedic Orihime]] is kidnapped by Ulquiorra, and celebrates regaining his former rank by punching a hole into Luppi and disintegrating his upper half with a Cero.

** Harribel's three [[EliteMooks Fraccion]] rip off their own arms to summon [[TheBerserker Ayon]]. Whether they can grow a new one is unknown, but Orihime restores them after the first time.

** Kenpachi casually rips off Gerard's right arm while the latter is a [[SizeShifter giant]] and the former is in [[TheBerserker Bankai]].

* ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'': Happens so often that it's nearly a RunningGag.

** Soi Fon has her arm removed to stop Baraggan's [[RapidAging Respira]] from taking over her whole body.
** Hachi removes his own arm, also infected with Respira, to [[HoistByHisOwnPetard kill Baraggan]].
** Harribel's three [[EliteMooks Fraccion]] remove their own arms to summon [[TheBerserker Ayon]].

** And dozens more characters all get their arms cut off at various points. Sometimes multiple times due to HealingFactor, including Nnoitra, Yammy, Gerard, Ulquiorra, Grimmjow, Komamura and more.

** [[spoiler: Trafalgar Law has his arm cleanly sliced off by ArcVillain Doflamingo during the final battle of the Dressrosa Arc. He later reattaches it with Leo's help.]]
** [[spoiler: Kyros, the legendary gladiator of the Dressrosa coliseum, lopped off his own leg when caught in leg braces and leaped at Doflamingo in an attempt to kill him during the latter's initial takeover of Dressrosa. Unfortunately, he was stopped before he could reach him]].
** Used at least twice for comedic value courtesy of Zoro, who suggests cutting off the offending limb whenever he gets caught in handcuffs or ankle braces, to the horror of his crewmates.
** [[spoiler: [[TheWonka Charlotte Perospero]] is grievously injured and missing his right arm, courtesy of Pedro's [[SuicideAttack suicide bomb attack.]] He can use his Devil Fruit powers to grow [[ArtificialLimbs a new arm made of candy]], but it's quite susceptible to heat.]]

** Hisoka allows one of his opponents two rip off both his arms so it would be easier for ''Hisoka'' to beat him. He later has them reattached by Machi from the Genei Ryodan.

** The Chimera ant King attempts to use a life or death game to unnerve his opponent and has it back fire and make him feel like he was the one lacking life and death resolve. To apologize for trying to use this tactic, he rips off his own arm to the horror of everyone.

** [[spoiler:Main character Gon]] loses an arm when [[spoiler:Neferpitou's Nen-animated corpse]] lunges at his back while he's distracted. Without missing a beat, [[spoiler:Gon pinned the corpse down using his ''own torn off arm''.]]

** Soi Fon has her arm removed to stop a decaying virus from taking over her whole body.
** Hachi removes his own arm, infected with the same decay, to kill Barragan.
** Harribel's three Fraccion remove their own arms to summon Ayon.
** Yoruichi tears her arm off to stop Pernidas from taking control of the rest of her body.
** And dozens more characters all get their arms cut off at various points. Sometimes multiple times due to HealingFactor, including Nnoitora, Yammy, Gerard, Ulquiorra, Grimmjow, Komamura and more.

*** Qin Shi Huang vs. [[spoiler:Hades]]: [[spoiler:Qin loses his left arm when it's cut off by Hades' ''Blood-Led Dawn'' attack]].

* In ''LightNovel/{{Baccano}}'', Ladd Russo finds his left forearm stripped to the bone after [[spoiler:a nasty run-in with the Rail Tracer]].

* ''LightNovel/ACertainMagicalIndex''.

* In ''LightNovel/KyoKaraMaoh'', Conrad loses an arm protecting Yuuri, and [[NeverFoundTheBody it's all their allies find of either of them]] when they arrive on the scene. At turns out, [[spoiler:the arm is the key to unlocking one of four parts of SealedEvilInACan.]]

* ''LightNovel/RebuildWorld'': All type 2, during battle.

* ''Manga/RurouniKenshin'': Kenshin once chopped the arm off of a random {{Mook}} he was fighting, and since he's already taking his vow of non-killing by them, let the man live. Said man considered being spared CruelMercy and came back to make Kenshin's life miserable by attaching a [[GatlingGood gattling gun]] (which could also launch explosive rounds) to the stump of said arm.
* In ''Anime/SailorMoon S: TheMovie'', Sailor Venus lops both arms off of a {{Mook}} by using her Love-Me Chain attack.
* ''Manga/SaintSeiya'' has two Type 3 incidents:
** [[spoiler: Capricorn Shura]] finds himself at the receiving end, courtesy of [[spoiler: Shiryu. Who then grabs him and attempts a TakingYouWithMe. Shura, who has had a HeelRealization, thwarts this and saves Shiryu, [[HeroicSacrifice and then dies.]].]]
** Earlier, one of the Silver Saints gets both hands cut off [[HoistByHisOwnPetard by his own flying disks]] as he fights Ikki.
* In ''Anime/ShinMazinger'', Zeus loses his right hand battling Hades. When a time-traveling Koji Kabuto and Mazinger Z uses the iconic RocketPunch to fight back, Zeus finds it awesome, grabs his severed arm and ''throws it into the beast''.
* ''Manga/ShuumatsuNoWalkureRecordOfRagnarok'':

* ''LightNovel/AiNoKusabi'': [[spoiler: Guy loses his left arm when attacked by an enraged Iason, and Iason loses his legs near the end in a fatal situation prompting the tragic ending.]]

** In the [[Anime/FullmetalAlchemist 2003 anime]], Scar lost both his arms after Kimblee causes an giant explosion.

* In ''Manga/InThisCornerOfTheWorld'', [[spoiler:main character Suzu loses her right hand to a time-delayed bomb that also [[DeathOfAChild kills her young niece Harumi]]. To make matters worse, the hand she loses is her drawing hand, and the loss of both her hand and Harumi greatly affects her in the last third of the story.]]

* This happens to [[spoiler: protagonist Shinichi]] during the final volume of ''Manga/Parasyte''; Migi, [[ItMakesSenseInContext his alien right hand who can manipulate his form to help Shinichi fight,]] [[spoiler: devises a battle strategy against Gotou in which he'll detatch himself from Shinchi's body to circumvent Gotou's parasyte detection sixth sense -- he won't be able to tell where Shinichi is since he'll become wholly human without Migi, so he'll sneak-attack Gotou while Migi serves as a distraction. When Migi attempts to slice Gotou's head off, the cut doesn't go deep enough, so he's able to heal himself; Migi [[YouShallNotPass stays behind to hold him back]] and demands that Shinichi run for his life. He reluctantly escapes, but he now only has one arm to defend himself with when he goes back to try to finish Gotou off. He gets his arm back; the remnants of Migi's cells inside Shinichi's body manage to join together to form Migi again.]]

** Much later on, [[spoiler:Eren]] invokes Type 3 in order to sneak into the enemy territory of Liberio without being detected, while also pretending to be a ShellShockedVeteran. He uses this to [[spoiler:manipulate Reiner's subordinate Falco into helping him send letters and communicate with outside parties (who these letters have been sent to has not yet been revealed)]] from within a psychiatric hospital. [[spoiler:Eren]] then uses [[spoiler:Falco]] to meet with [[spoiler:Reiner]] for the first time in several years. After negotiations of peace talks [[spoiler:between them fail]], he regenerates his limbs and [[spoiler:turns into his Titan form]].

* In ''Anime/FutureGPXCyberFormula'', Edelhi Bootsvorz loses his left arm (and his [[EyeScream left eye]]) in a accident during a test drive while competing with Osamu. After the accident, he gets ArtificialLimbs of his arm and a mechanical eye and more natural-looking ones later in the series.
** Also happens to John Cleeve, a former racer. Maria told Hayato that he lost his leg in a accident while returning home from a test drive, and the accident ended his racing career.

** [[spoiler: Prince Temudan]] is an IllBoy whose illness causes him to lose his limbs, which are replaced with prosthetics.

* A type 2 occurs in ''Anime/SenkiZesshouSymphogear G'' when [[spoiler:Ver's Nephilim bit off Hibiki's left arm when she attempted to punch it]].

* ''Manga/InuYasha'': When Inu-Yasha fought his AloofBigBrother for possession of their father's most powerful sword, he proved he had the better claim by cutting Sesshoumaru's arm off with it. Sesshoumaru's arm then becomes the ChekhovsGun for some CharacterDevelopment that doesn't come to fruition until 50+ volumes later.

** A self-inflicted one occurs in ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureVentoAureo'' by Leone Abbachio, in order to keep a key from falling into enemy hands. It's reattached soon after.